Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[bruce_the_loon]

Pyongyang, North Korea? The aged infrastructure combined with your comment leads me to that conclusion.

 

[pvpeacock]

Correct! Bruce, you are up.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Went with a somewhat depressing topic on this one.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Ping. Do we need a hint?

 

[pvpeacock]

Pescaro del Tronto, Italy?

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Not Italy, right continent, wrong war.

 

[DuncB]

balkans?

 

[DuncB]

Belchite in Spain, destroyed spanish civil war.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Dunc

Belchite in Spain, destroyed spanish civil war.

Correct, got it in two. You're up.

 

[DuncB]

Okay here'

s the next city

 

[beermanpete]

Omaha, Nebraska?

 

[DuncB]

Not America.

 

[DuncB]

Do you want to start with the continent?

 

[Pkrd]

Holland?

 

[DuncB]

Partly the right continent, very flat and below sea level.

 

[CKuhns]

"Partly the right continent" and "below sea level" - Im going with Eurasia somewhere near the Caspian Sea. Russia, Azerbaijan or Kazakhstan all have pretty large cities near or below sea level.

WAG - Bank or Banki (Depending on the map) Azerbaijan

 

[duncan.brown]

The buildings look like they have a bit of that former Soviet decay.

 

[DuncB]

CKhuhns and Duncan very close.

Just need to name the city now.

 

[duncan.brown]

I’m going to take a guess that the river is the Volga and say Volgograd.

 

[DuncB]

Not Volgograd. Different river, CKuhns is in the right area.
There is more to see in the photo than just Europe!

 

[duncan.brown]

Atyrau?

 

[DuncB]

Yes you got it. I was there a couple of years ago for some teaching. It is a city on two continents. That's the Ural river, so sturgeon in there and hence caviar. No brewery in Kazakhstan I was told so all the beer imported. A lot of Vodka though !
It's about 70 m below sea level and the flattest place I've ever seen, beyond the city nothing for thousands of kilometers.
Super friendly people, mostly Moslem but liberal, safest city I've ever walked around in. In the winter very cold and summer very hot. I went at the end of April beginning of May and it was perfect.
Worst thing I had there was fermented horses milk still gives me the judders thinking about it.
You have the board.

 

[duncan.brown]

That took me a while to find! (Don't worry, @DuncB is not my burner account for name that skyline wins.)

Going with a similar theme. I taught at a summer school in this city in 2011. I don't have any pictures, so here's one I found online.

 

[InspectorJon]

I think It's Japan so I'll start with Tokyo

 

[Barbarossa]

Writing look like Korean. So, educated guess, Seoul?

 

[duncan.brown]

It's South Korea, but not Seoul.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

How about Busan? I haven't been to that end of the country, but it's supposed to be beautiful when the cherry trees are in blossom.

 

[DuncB]

No Duncan.brown we are not the same person.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

No Duncan.brown we are not the same person.

Quick, tell us something about Duncan.Brown that we know, but he doesn't.

 

[duncan.brown]

How about Busan? I haven't been to that end of the country, but it's supposed to be beautiful when the cherry trees are in blossom.

Right side of the country, but the wrong city.